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Video Compressor: what you'd pay elsewhere

AltFTool's Video Compressor re-encodes a video to a smaller MP4 or WebM in your browser, free, with no daily limit. FreeConvert's Basic plan is US$12.99/month, and its free tier gives 20 conversion minutes a day and 5 minutes per file. Zamzar's Basic plan is US$12/month, and its free service compresses 2 files in any 24-hour period at up to 50 MB each.

Prices checked 102 days ago
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At a glance

Free Video Compressor here
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FreeConvert
US$12.99/month
USD list price
FreeConvert free tier
20 conversion minutes per day, 5 minutes per file, 1 GB maximum file size.
Biggest trade-off
It is slow. The encoder runs single-threaded in the browser, so a long clip can take many times its own length to compress. A hosted service or a desktop encoder will be much faster.
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Shrinking a video file so it can be emailed or uploaded: what the paid tools charge

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FreeConvert

USD list price

Converting a video clip into a GIF, and compressing video, image and PDF files.

Entry price

US$12.99/month

Basic, monthly billing; Standard US$24.99/mo, Pro US$29.99/mo

Free tier

20 conversion minutes per day, 5 minutes per file, 1 GB maximum file size.

Yearly billing is advertised as 'Get 2 months free'.

Checked 102 days ago

Read from freeconvert.com/pricing (opens in a new tab), freeconvert.com/privacy (opens in a new tab), freeconvert.com/video-converter (opens in a new tab)

What each free tier actually allows

Whether you need to pay at all depends on where the free plan's ceiling sits. Here it is in each vendor's own terms.

FreeConvert

USD list price
  • Free users get 20 conversion minutes per day, shared across web and API use (freeconvert.com/pricing FAQ, checked 2026-07-25)
  • Free usage is capped at 5 conversion minutes per file
  • Free file size ceiling is 1 GB - tool pages state 'Max file size 1GB. Upgrade for more'
  • No account is required to use the free minutes on the website; a free account is needed to use them via the API
  • Free pages carry ads - 'No Ads' is listed only under 'In All Paid Plans'
  • '100 conversions at a time' and 'Merge 100 files at a time' are paid-plan features
  • Uploaded files are stored with AWS in Ireland and 'automatically and permanently deleted after 8 hours', with an option to delete manually sooner

Zamzar

USD list price
  • Free service allows converting up to 2 files and compressing up to 2 files in any 24-hour period (zamzar.com/faq, checked 2026-07-25)
  • Free uploads are limited to 50 MB per file; 'If you upload two or more files together, then the total file size must be less than 50MB'
  • No account is needed for the free service: 'If you are using our free service, then there's no need to log in.'
  • Converted files are held for only 24 hours before removal, and the original file 'is deleted from our servers as soon as it is converted'
  • Paid file-size ceilings are 200 MB (Basic), 400 MB (Pro) and 2 GB (Business); desktop conversions per day are capped at 50 / 100 / 500 respectively

What the free Video Compressor does not do

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  • It is slow. The encoder runs single-threaded in the browser, so a long clip can take many times its own length to compress. A hosted service or a desktop encoder will be much faster.
  • The FFmpeg engine is downloaded from a public CDN (unpkg) the first time you compress, which means it needs an internet connection then and some network policies block it.
  • No 'compress to X MB' target. You choose quality and resolution and check the size you get. It also has no H.265 or AV1 output, which give smaller files at the same quality.
  • No batch queue, and very large or 4K files are limited by your device's memory.

What the free Video Compressor does

  • Quality presets plus manual control of CRF, maximum resolution (1080p down to 360p), frame rate and audio bitrate
  • Outputs H.264/AAC MP4 or VP9/Opus WebM, and can drop the audio track or strip metadata
  • Encodes inside the tab with FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly; the video itself is not uploaded
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Questions people actually ask

Is my video uploaded anywhere?

No. The video is read and encoded in your browser. The only thing downloaded is the FFmpeg engine, from a public CDN, on first use. FreeConvert and Zamzar both upload your file to their servers for processing.

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  note         = {Prices checked 2026-07-25. Sources: FreeConvert: \url{https://www.freeconvert.com/pricing}; Zamzar: \url{https://www.zamzar.com/faq/}.}
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